Brongniartia lupinoides (Kunth) Taub.

Brongniartia angustata Rydberg, sp. nov
A shrub; young branches densely pilose; leaves 5-15 cm. long; stipules deciduous; petiole about 1 cm. long, as well as the rachis densely pilose; leaflets 13-17, linear-lanceolate or rarely oblong, mostly 2-3.5 cm. long, 7-10 mm. wide, glabrous above, silky beneath, strongly reticulate, acute at each end, mucronate; flowers axillary; pedicels about 2 mm. long, densely villous-pilose ; calyx fully 1 cm. long, densely pubescent; corolla unknown; pod 7-8 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, rugose, glabrous, 5-6-seeded, wing-margined on the upper suture.
Tvpe collected between Mitla and Oaxaca City, September 5-6, 1906, Rose & Rose 11295 (herb.'N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Oaxaca, Michoacan, and Puebla.

Brongniartia benthamiana Hemsl. Biol. Centr Am. Bot. 2: 252. 1880.
? Brongniartia intermedia Moric. Mem. Soc. Geneve 7: 253. 1836.
Perallea lv.-pinoid.es Benth. PI. Hartw. 10. 1839. Not P. lupinoides H.B.K. 1824.
A shrub or undershrub; young branches densely fuscous-villous, subvelutinous; leaves 10-15 cm. long; stipules obliquely oblong or lanceolate, acute, 8-10 mm. long, fuscous-pubescent; petioles about 1 cm. long, fuscousvelutinous; stipels setaceous; leaflets 13-19, oblong, 1 .5-3 cm. long, 12-15 mm. wide, rounded at both ends, mucronate, rather densely silky on both sides when young, glabrate in age, firm, strongly reticulate beneath; flowers 1-4 in each axil; pedicels 1.5-2.5 cm. long, velutinous; bractlets oblong or lanceolate, 8-10 mm. long, deciduous; calyx densely fuscous-villous, 15 mm. long, the lobes narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; corolla about 2 cm. long, rose-purple; banner orbicular, clawed; pod glabrous, 4-6-seeded, the body 6-7 cm. long, 2 cm. broad or more, slightly winged on the upper suture, the stipe 0.5 cm. long.
Type locality: Le6n.
Distribution: Guanajuato to Puebla and Morelos.

Brongniartia lupinoides (H.B.K.) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat Herb. 23: 468. 1922.
Peraltea lupinoides H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 471. 1824. Peraltea oxyphylla DC. M6m. Legum. 463. 1825. Brongniartia thermoides Spreng. Syst. 4 ! : 287. 1827. Megastegia speciosa G. Don, Gen. Hist. 2: 468. 1832. Brongniartia oxyphylla Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 1: 254. 1880. A shrub; branches villoustomentose ; leaves 1-2 dm. long, silky-villous throughout; stipules lanceolate, acute, about 1 cm. long, deciduous; petioles short, 0.5-2 cm. long; leaflets 13-27, short-petioluled, oblong, obtuse, or acute at each end, mucronate-aristate at the apex, lanuginous-sericeous, silvery-white on both sides, 2.5-3.5 cm. long, 10-12 mm. wide; flowers axillary, 2 or 3 in each axil; pedicels 1-3 cm. long; bracts ovate, acute, subcordate at the base, 1.5 cm. long, membranous, sericeous without; calyx campanulate, 15 mm. long, sericeous, the lobes lanceolate, acute, the upper two united three-fourths their length; corolla violet, 18-20 mm. long; banner short-clawed, suborbicular, emarginate; wings and keelpetals similar, obliquely obovate, falcate, short-clawed, with a small basal auricle; pod oblong, somewhat narrowed below, tapering at the base, about 5 cm. long, nearly 2 cm. broad near the apex, about 5-seeded.
Type locality: Between Chilpanzingo and Zumpango, Guerrero. Distribution: Guerrero, Puebla, Guanajuato, and Oaxaca.